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War Won’t Be Coming Back To The Balkans

Yet the situation is not as dire as it may appear. The risks are real. But the overriding interest of the region’s politicians remains clinging to power. While Russia has an incentive to open a second front against the West, its partners and fellow travellers in the Balkans have much to lose from an escalation.

by Dimitar Bechev
published by
War on the Rocks
 on March 24, 2022

War on the Rocks

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